How to Use gestation in a Sentence

gestation

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  • The big battle in the now decade-long war has been over gestation crates, small containment units that are used to house pregnant pigs.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Eighty-nine percent of the procedures were performed in the first 12 weeks of gestation.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Mifepristone is approved for use up to 10 weeks’ gestation, or 70 days.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 14 June 2024
  • Charlotte is thought to be carrying up to four pups and could give birth at any time since the gestation period for stingrays is between three and four months.
    — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Many of these embryos will die; those that survive live in her uterus for the usual canine gestation period, around sixty days, after which, with any luck, a pup is born.
    — Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • Abortions are legal up to the 20th week after gestation and after that only if the patient’s health or life is compromised.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 4 May 2022
  • Insiders also note that animation has a longer gestation period than live-action.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 17 May 2022
  • The show’s gestation really came just a week prior to air date, on — appropriately enough — Mother’s Day.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 May 2022
  • Roe prohibits states from passing laws that restrict abortions before the point of fetal viability - around 24 weeks of gestation.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 3 May 2022
  • That issue is the use of gestation crates — tiny stalls where pregnant sows are held, their movements severely restricted — in McDonald’s pork supply chain.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • All those projects are in the very early stages of gestation.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The top new entry on the latest frame has had a 12-year gestation.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2023
  • That’s because the brain and spine begin to form within the first four weeks of gestation.
    — Ana B. Ibarra, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Compared to the mad days of their gestation there are no mysteries of shock and awe, no strut and spunk.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2024
  • About half are with a pill, which can be taken up to 12 weeks gestation, and most are done at 15 weeks or less.
    — Bob Christie, ajc, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The gestation of an elephant is nearly two years and that of a building even longer.
    — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The telltale sign of La Niña's gestation is the spear of green that elongates and widens toward the west from the coast of South America.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2024
  • The gestation of the project goes back over a decade starting with a 2012 crowdfunding effort.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The youngest of the zoo's herd of five, Zahara is 15 months into a 22-month gestation period, the zoo announced last week.
    — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The fetuses in the new research were at 32 to 36 weeks’ gestation, researchers said.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The gestation period of a gray squirrel is about 40 days.
    — Kelly McMasters, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Zahara, the youngest of the herd of five, is 15 months into a 22-month gestation period and is doing well, the zoo announced.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
  • That law, signed by Gov. Doug Ducey this year, bans most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That’s when the egg adheres to her uterine wall for a brief gestation before cubs weighing less than a pound are born.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
  • The young are born after a 46-day gestation period, though as with all lagomorphs, this is not locked in.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • No matter when the court date is, no matter when the ban goes into effect gestation doesn’t stop.
    — Essence, 30 Sep. 2023
  • At the time, Ohio allowed abortions up to 22 weeks gestation unless a woman's life was at stake.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • This law keeps the requirement for two in-person visits but would shrink the time frame for those visits to week six of gestation.
    — Caroline Catherman Orlando Sentinel (tns), al, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Utah Abortions are allowed in Utah up to 18 weeks' gestation.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 June 2024
  • Even as Moore was writing, a third business model that scaled was in gestation.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022

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